[elrepo-devel] What's the reason for nosrc SRPMs for kernel-lt 4.4.236-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64

[Peter Kahn]

Thanks.  That makes sense to me.  I wanted to make sure I understood.  The
majority of the source we need are in the devel package anyway for our
specific driver build case.

Peter

On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 1:44 PM Akemi Yagi <toracat at elrepo.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 10:30 AM Manuel Wolfshant
> <wolfy at nobugconsulting.ro> wrote:
> >
> > On 3/1/21 7:58 PM, Peter Kahn via elrepo-devel wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Can someone tell me why  kernel-lt 4.4.236-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64 has a
> > > nosrc package instead of a SRPM?  I thought these normally were used
> > > with 3rdparty vendor restrictions forced the issue and I assumed that
> > > the kernel-lt would be open source under a GPL license.
> > >
> > > Please let me know what's driving this choice.
> >
> >
> > if I were to guess I'd say mere size and the fact that the original is
> > available in any kernel mirror. there is no benefit in duplicating that
> > on the ElRepo's mirrors.
>
> To expand on what wolfy said, what is not included in our "nosrc" SRPM
> is the original linux code. In your case,
>
>
> http://mirrors.coreix.net/elrepo-archive-archive/kernel/el7/SRPMS/kernel-lt-4.4.236-1.el7.elrepo.nosrc.rpm
>
> and
>
> https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/linux-4.4.236.tar.xz
>
> together will create a full source SRPM.
>
> Akemi
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